【苏联《国外核技术》1984年第6期第16页报道】到1985年锂需求量将有急剧增长的预测很可能得不到兑现。人们曾经推测,发达资本主义国家的锂工业“将进入新的发展阶段”,仅美国锂产品的年需要量换算成碳酸锂便可达到33,000吨。但在实际上,美国1977—1982年锂产品的需要量没有变化——约12,000吨碳酸锂。发达资本主义 [U.S. “Foreign Nuclear Technology,” No. 6, 1984, No. 6, page 16] The rapid increase in demand for lithium by 1985 is unlikely to be fulfilled. People once speculated that the lithium industry in advanced capitalist countries “will enter a new stage of development” and that the annual demand for lithium products in the United States will be converted into lithium carbonate to reach 33,000 tons. However, in reality, there was no change in the demand for lithium products in the United States from 1977 to 1982—about 12,000 tons of lithium carbonate. Advanced capitalism